Prevent Certificate Expiration Before It Damages Your Business
An expired SSL certificate instantly breaks your website, triggers browser security warnings, and destroys customer trust. Worse, it damages your search engine rankings and can take hours to discover and fix. SSL monitoring ensures you're alerted well in advance of expiration, giving you plenty of time to renew certificates before problems occur.
What is SSL Monitoring?
SSL monitoring continuously tracks the validity and expiration dates of SSL/TLS certificates on your websites and web services. Our system regularly checks your certificates, validates their authenticity, and sends you advance notifications at critical milestones (30, 14, 7, and 1 day before expiration) so you can renew them before they expire.
SSL certificates are the foundation of secure web browsing, enabling HTTPS connections that protect user data. When certificates expire, browsers display frightening warning messages that send users running. SSL monitoring prevents this scenario.
Why SSL Monitoring is Critical
Avoid Costly Outages
When an SSL certificate expires, your secure website effectively goes offline. Users see security warnings and can't proceed. The damage is immediate: lost sales, abandoned carts, and frustrated users. For e-commerce sites, this can cost thousands of dollars per hour.
Maintain Customer Trust
Security warnings are relationship killers. When browsers flag your site as "Not Secure" or display certificate errors, users lose confidence in your brand. Many will never return, and some will share their negative experience on social media.
Protect SEO Rankings
Google and other search engines penalize sites with expired certificates. SSL is a ranking factor, and certificate issues can cause significant drops in search visibility that take weeks to recover from.
Ensure Compliance
Many regulatory frameworks (PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR) require encrypted connections for sensitive data. Certificate expiration can put you out of compliance and expose you to penalties or legal liability.
Key Features
Advance Alerts
Receive notifications at 30, 14, 7, and 1 day before expiration. Multiple warnings ensure you never miss a renewal.
Chain Validation
Verify the complete certificate chain, including intermediate certificates, for proper SSL configuration.
Multi-Domain
Monitor unlimited certificates across all domains, subdomains, and services from a single dashboard.
🚨 Real Example: The Midnight Certificate Expiration
TechCorp's SSL certificate expired at 2 AM on a Saturday. Their payment gateway stopped working, showing security warnings to customers. By the time someone noticed at 9 AM, they had lost $12,000 in sales and dozens of support tickets piled up.
What would have prevented this:
SSL monitoring with 30-day advance alerts would have given TechCorp a full month to renew. Setup time: 30 seconds. Monthly cost: included with monitoring.
ROI: One prevented incident = years of monitoring costs covered.
Getting Started with SSL Monitoring
Add Your HTTPS URL
When you add any HTTPS website for monitoring, SSL certificate tracking is automatically enabled.
Configure Alert Timing
Choose when to receive expiration alerts (30, 14, 7, 1 days). We recommend keeping all alerts enabled.
Set Up Notifications
Configure email, Slack, or SMS alerts to ensure the right team members are notified about upcoming renewals.
Frequently Asked Questions
Set alerts for 30, 14, and 7 days before expiration. This gives you time to renew with your provider, update configurations, and handle any validation issues. Last-minute renewals often fail due to DNS validation problems or payment issues.
Browsers show scary security warnings that block 80-95% of visitors. Your site appears broken, customers don't trust it, and you lose sales immediately. Google also penalizes your SEO rankings. Some customers will assume you've been hacked.
Yes. Modern SSL monitoring checks for weak cipher suites, incorrect certificate chains, domain mismatches, and TLS version issues. These problems can cause browser warnings even with valid certificates.
Absolutely. Auto-renewal fails 2-5% of the time due to DNS issues, rate limits, or server misconfigurations. Monitoring catches these failures before your certificate expires and your site goes down.
Check daily for expiration status and immediately after any server changes. Some monitoring services check every hour to catch sudden revocations or configuration changes that break HTTPS.
SSL is the old protocol (deprecated), TLS is the modern version. 'SSL monitoring' is the common term, but you're actually monitoring TLS certificates. Good monitoring checks both the certificate validity and the TLS protocol configuration.